Little Cardamom - Chapter 74

I don’t know what kind of wine Yun Yi prepared, Ming Tan took a sip and became a little drunk. After the fireworks were set off, her head was dizzy, and there were some things she wanted to say to Jiang Xu, but she couldn’t think of them for a while.

She held her face in both hands, the night sky in front of her was bright and bright, the lake was clean and clear, occasionally the night wind would wrinkle the dots of broken stars on the lake surface, and when a burst of dizziness hit, these pictures rotated and staggered again, as if dragging her into a quiet place. Beautiful dream.

In the dream, there was an endless starry sky, a mirror lake covered with broken stars, and trees standing still. She lay on her husband’s broad shoulders and walked forward step by step.

The touch of the broad shoulders was too real, she couldn’t tell whether it was a dream or not, so she hiccupped and muttered a poem for some reason: “When I’m drunk, I don’t know that the sky is in the water, and the boat is full of clear dreams that press down on the galaxy. Uh…but I’m not…not drunk!”

Jiang Xu glanced back slightly from the corner of his eye, and gently lifted her up.

All this was originally very quiet, but Yunyi saw this scene not far away, and without thinking about it, she stepped forward and offered to share it with the Lord. After all, it seems that there is no reason for the Lord to come in person for such a job.

“…”

“No, take care of yourself.”

He stayed briefly in Li County for one night, and the next day, Jiang Xumingtan and Shu Jingran parted ways and headed for Tonggang, Quanzhou. The accompanying dark guards also parted ways, most of them were sent by Jiang Xu to protect Shu Jingran, and Yun Yi was also asked to leave by Shu Jingran.

In fact, he didn’t plan to give it to Yunyi, but in the end he gave it anyway. Ming Tan was a little puzzled by this arrangement, and asked him on the way: “Why did my husband let Yun Yi go with Second Young Master Shu?”

“Why do you think so?”

Ming Tan thought for a while, and tentatively said: “Could it be because Second Master Shu is interested in Yun Yi, husband, do you want to fulfill them?”

Jiang Xu didn’t answer, Ming Tan said again: “Madam Youxiang is famous for being strict in Beijing, how could she let Second Master Shu and Yun Yi be together, husband, are you sure…is it okay?”

Along the way, she couldn’t see that Shu Jingran treated Yun Yi differently. Yun Yi didn’t respond at first, but after coming out of Quancheng in the past few days, Yun Yi obviously warmed up to Shu Jingran.

She saw it, but she always pretended not to see it, and never matched the two. Because in her opinion, there should be no possibility of these two people.

Between Young Master Youxiang and the secret guard of Jinyunwei, there may be thousands of distances between the princes of the Marquis Mansion and the small police officers of the government government. It is impossible to even get married with an ordinary family, let alone Yunyi, could it be possible that Yunyi should marry him as a concubine?

According to Mrs. Youxiang’s reputation of being strict with rules, she might not even be able to accept her as a concubine, and a girl as easy-going as Yunyi, why would she want to enter his Youxiang’s mansion as a concubine? So instead of having many difficulties in the end, it is better not to have too many entanglements in the morning.

“Shu Jingran’s matter, he will handle it himself. He is a very assertive person, you don’t have to worry about it.” Jiang Xu explained, although he just felt that Yun Yi was in the way, and had no intention of matching.

Ming Tan nodded, but felt a little disappointed. She was also worried, in the end, no one seemed to be able to control her except herself. It had been more than a month since she left Beijing, and she still didn’t know what was going on with Bai Minmin and Jing Wan’s marriage.

In just three days, the horses and chariots traveled across the state, but the road to Tonggang was not easy. The first half of the official road was full of narrow potholes, which seemed to have not been repaired for many years. In the comfortable carriage, Ming Tan was jolted to the point of being dizzy and nauseated. What was even worse was that in a town near Tonggang, Jiang Xu said that he could no longer take a horse-drawn carriage any further.

Ming Tan couldn’t help asking: “Why?”

“There are many small roads ahead, it is difficult for a carriage to travel, and the countryside is remote, so it is not suitable to be ostentatious.”

Now that the husband has said that, Ming Tan didn’t want to cause him any trouble, and rather consciously looked up and down at his own dress, which although he tried his best to be low-key, was still very conspicuous in the crowd, and asked: ” Do you want to change the dress too?”

“It’s better to change it, it’s better to be simple.”

Ming Tan nodded obediently, and took out a small bronze mirror from the eight-treasure cabinet, and took a selfie with it.

After a while, she murmured annoyedly: “But with my appearance, even with a veil, it’s hard to hide my charm. Is it possible that I have to wear a veil all the way?”

Jiang Xu: “…”

Although Jiang Xu has repeatedly stated that Tonggang is a remote and poor place, but Ming Tan has not seen it with his own eyes, so he can’t imagine what it means to be remote and poor. After all, by her standards, Pangshan, Wang County, where Mingheng is located, is already a poor place. Far Beijing small land.

There was no inn along the way, only a simple wild shop at the foot of the mountain, Ming Tan saw the dilapidated appearance of the roof that seemed to be about to collapse at any time, he didn’t even want to sit down and drink a bowl of tea.

She changed into a plain fine cloth dress, temporarily abandoned the carriage, and took a ride with Jiang Xu instead.

In order to take care of her, Jiang Xuxu also slowed down his riding speed a lot, even got off his horse on difficult roads, and led the horse in front.

It was getting dark, Ming Tan looked around and saw the desolation along the road, so he couldn’t help asking: “Husband, where shall we rest tonight?” Maybe he will sleep in the woods.

Afraid of what would happen, Jiang Xu responded, “When I am marching, I often sleep in the wilderness.”

With one hand behind his back, he led the horse in front with the other, without looking back at Ming Tan who was sitting on the horse.

Ming Tan thought that what he said just now had no meaning, and when he was mentally preparing to sleep out, he suddenly said: “But there should be someone in front, just find someone to spend the night with.”

Ming Tan suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. Although she didn’t bring her own quilt, it was difficult for her to fall asleep during the night, but it was much easier to accept than sleeping in the woods. At least she didn’t have to worry about being drenched in the forest when it rained at night.

However, after spending the night with someone else, Ming Tan found that this worry could not be eliminated.

They stayed at the Orion family at the foot of the mountain. There were about five or six such families at the foot of the mountain. The house they stayed at was the one with the largest and most neatly built house. The prey looked much richer than the others. But the house is still very simple, the gaps in the roof are finger wide, if it rains, there is no way to hide.

“The man in my family has been hunting in the mountains for the past two days, and the roof has not been repaired in time. It may rain tonight. Use this to pick it up, and suffer.” He sent them a small wooden basin.

“Thank you Mrs. Liu.” Ming Tan smiled with curved lips.

“It’s not popular in our place.” The woman called “Sister-in-law Liu” waved her hand, “You two can stay at ease for one night, and you don’t have much to eat tonight. Steamed buns and pickles, you two will eat it tomorrow. I’ll make minced meat porridge for you early in the morning.”

“No need for Mrs. Liu.” Ming Tan hastily declined, the place is so dilapidated, meat is not an ordinary food, so it would be a shame to ask someone to serve it.

“What’s the matter? Our family is not rich, and we can still eat meat. My man is good at hunting, and this is the case everywhere in the villages.” Mrs. Liu gave a thumbs up, with pride and satisfaction that could not be concealed on her face. “My man is good to me and my baby. Every time I go back to the town to sell prey, I always bring back two catties of meat. If you don’t eat it, my baby will also eat it.”

As soon as she mentioned the baby, the baby in her arms began to cry. She coaxed her skillfully, then raised her head and said, “Then you guys rest first, I’ll go feed the baby first.”

Ming Tan nodded hurriedly.

After Mrs. Liu left, Ming Tan looked at the wooden basin she sent, and remained silent for a while.

In the mansion before, she also saw servants using wooden basins to catch rainwater, but they were all placed outside under the eaves, and they were replaced when they were full, in case the rain was too heavy to clog the drains. She never thought that people lived The house also needs to put pots to catch the rain.

Of course, she never thought that the house that people live in can be so simple, and it is a very wealthy family in this land.

I heard from Mrs. Liu that the room they lived in was the one his eldest daughter lived in before she got married. There was a wooden bed against the wall, and a dressing table…it was hard to call it a dressing table. It was full of sundries. , the corners of the table were uneven and rickety, an old small round table with a set of semi-old pottery tea sets on it, two tea bowls were missing, and there was nothing else.

When Ming Tan entered the house for the first time, he felt that there was no place to stand, sit or stand. He couldn’t imagine how a girl’s family would live in such a house for more than ten years.

But from Mrs. Liu’s tone, she and her man valued this girl quite a lot, and there was no reason for a girl to have a room alone in the other houses, and she and her man waited for the girl to get married before they got a boy doll. It’s so important that it can’t be found in ten miles and eight villages.

Ming Tan didn’t know what to say, so he sighed softly with Jiang Xu for a while, but Jiang Xu said: “Actually, more than 70% of the common people in Daxian are not living as well as they are. There are houses to shelter from the wind, and food to eat. That’s a lot. What the people want in their lives.”

Ming Tan was stunned, for a moment it was hard to imagine how many people Qicheng was.

Today, the sky is not beautiful during the day, and there is a sign of rain. Sure enough, the two of them did not talk for a while, and it started to rain outside. It smashed into the gap, and splashed water, splashing in all directions.

There is more than one finger-width gap in the roof, and a wooden basin is obviously incomplete. Jiang Xu put the wooden basin on the important bed, and hugged Ming Tan who was sitting on the bed at a loss, to the corner of the bed: “You sleep here, you won’t be drenched by the rain.”

“What about you, my husband?”

This half of the place that will not be exposed to the rain obviously cannot fit two people.

“Ben… I’ll just sit down.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the dim oil lamp in the room was blown out by the wind.

Ming Tan huddled in the corner of the bed, the rain fell into the wooden basin on the bed, ticking continuously, and soon splashed, wet her sleeves, and it was icy cold.

The rain outside the house was getting heavier and heavier, with occasional flashes of lightning, and the not-so-secure windows were suddenly blown open, and the wind and rain blew in unscrupulously.

Jiang Xu got up, closed the window again, walked to the side of the bed and asked, “Can’t sleep?”

…who can sleep here?

Ming Tan originally wanted to agree to come to Tonggang and never cause him any trouble, so no matter how unbearable it was, she had to endure it and not complain, but she had never encountered such a predicament before, and she huddled in a corner and could not complain. Not daring to move, her sleeves were splashed by the rainwater in the wooden tub, and once there was thunder outside, she shrank once.

After holding back for a while, she still groped to the edge of the bed in the dark, stretched out her hands to wrap around Jiang Xu’s waist, and whispered aggrievedly: “Husband, please hold me, I’m a little scared.”

Jiang Xu slowed down, hugged her, and stroked her thin shoulder: “Don’t be afraid, I’m here.”